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| Our four cats also have had their rabies shots. Do you all ever worry about rabies with stray cats?
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No we don't
Cases of stuff like that are very very rare here. Much of it is due to the wicked Winters. Just don't see much of anything harmful. And since most people are home farming around here... they are out and about on the land doing things. So when we see critters that look mangy or questionable, we just take care of them.
Sue it's something to worry about but having things like a good comunity and many eyes and ears about also helps to keep that stuff low.
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| Good. Maybe I watched Old Yeller one too many times. I talked to another farmer and he said he saw a skunk acting rather strange. He shot it. Can't imagine any worse thing then a rabid skunk.
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" It's nothing personal, strickly business"
I've got family in warmer places. They talk about stuff like 6 foot poison snakes and rabbit critters.. but here, the -12 winters kills that stuff. I've only pulled 2 ticks off a dog here in 30+ years
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I want to send a couple of letters to the editor of the newspaper locally:
Letter #1.
An open letter to those who release their unwanted pets to the wild.
Thank you so much for releasing your unwanted pet(s).
Please send more, the last ones were delicious.
Signed
Wiley E Coyote
Letter #2
An open letter to those who release their unwanted pets to the wild.
Thank you so much for releasing your unwanted pet(s).
They make for great target practice, and if you shoot to wound, the targets are moving and last longer.
(the second letter is tongue in cheek, meant to get a point across. The times I've have to shoot animals, I've always tried for a one shot kill.)
I have not sent these letters, I don't want to be tarred and feathered.
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well the first one is far more common I'd say from were I'm standing.
But then again, everyone is so worried about the wild things, why not feed them something other than your trash. 
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Well, we're in Upstate Ny near Oswego, so if anyone has a barn cat or two to spare, we'll be needing them once our house is built...got a nice, older milking barn for them to live in. Enjoyed the topic!
Jon Alvarez
Alvy's Acres
Website: www.JonAlvarez.com
Email: Jon@JonAlvarez.com
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HA HA.. i know your town.
You'll have no trouble at all! I should have you over for coffee
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I wouldn’t mind having a few “farm cats” around here. There are plenty of them available at the shelters, but it takes a cat with some real country smarts to survive here. We have too many coyotes and other predators picking them off. I wouldn’t feel right subjecting a tame cat from a cushy domestic life to this environment. You could put out a sign for “Free Cats”, maybe you’ll get some takers. You know, try and spread the feline population around a little. I like the message your son came up with, very clever!
R. Link ~ LuckyStoneRanch.com 
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Most of what's dumped off here isn't realy what you'd think of as a house cat. If they are dropped off here then it's for a reason, they are mean or nasty mostly. I've had this talk here before..but I'm NOT paying a dime for cats..shelter or no. besides if they go to the shelter, then someone needs to raise money to feed and house them. Here they will get MORE food than other places and not that crud in a can eather. Today they had the wings and left overs of 30 Jumb Cornish X's. On dairy farms they the waste milk, about 3-8 gallons... is feed to the cats. Needless to say the life of a dairy cat is great. you see them in the barns sleeping with the cows, or up in the hay mow in big nap piles. Then in the night they slip out and kill tons of rats and mice. Tons of places to scratch those claws, no litter boxes to be trained in...
Realy it's a cat's life.
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